The killing of the Kaufman County district attorney and his wife is likely to turn up the heat on the notorious Aryan Brotherhood of Texas prison gang.
Suspicion already had fallen on the Aryan Brotherhood after Assistant District Attorney Mark Hasse was gunned down Jan. 31 near the Kaufman County Courthouse.
Now, with the slaying of District Attorney Mike McLelland and his wife, Cynthia, at their home near Forney, law enforcement sources say authorities will pursue any possible connections between the cases and the violent white supremacist gang. . . .
An official with the U.S. Marshals Service recently said in a widely circulated email that the Aryan Brotherhood was the focus of its investigation into Hasse’s death.

So this was an actual suspicion, and we don’t yet know the name of the official who sent this “widely circulated email,” but that’s OK: You can contact Kevin Krause on Twitter and ask him to follow up, to figure out why taxpayer resources were wasted chasing that wild goose.

[The SPLC] has transformed itself into an all-purpose antihate crusader, labeling 1,007 different organizations across America at last count as “anti-gay,” “white nationalist,” “anti-Muslim,” “anti-immigrant,” or just plain hateful (one SPLC category is “general hate”). The SPLC put the FRC on its list of “anti-gay” organizations in 2010, and the SPLC’s “Hate Map” page, whose banner displays men in Nazi-style helmets giving Sieg Heil salutes, lists the [Family Research Council] among 14 hate groups headquartered in the District of Columbia.

Ask Anna Maria Hoffman what it was like that day last year when SPLC-inspired terrorist Floyd Corkins came to kill her and her friends. And then ask yourself, “Why did it take more than two months after the murder of Mark Haase for officials to arrest Eric Williams? Why was Williams left free for 10 weeks — during which Mike and Cynthia McLelland were also murdered — while investigators reportedly chased a wild-goose theory about the Aryan Brotherhood?”

BASHIR: “Speculation has quickly turned toward white supremacists. . . . Is this gang solely based on racial hatred? And how do you think they might be linked to these killings?”
POTOK: “Well, like most of these race-based prison gangs, they are fundamentally a criminal enterprise. . . .”

Now, I raise the subject of this interview for a specific reason. On Sunday night, March 31, when Kevin Krause filed his report at the Dallas Morning News, this was the headline:

Notice a difference in those two headlines? Shen’s Think Progress article cited — you guessed, didn’t you? — Mark Potok’s Jan. 31 article, and Potok appeared that same day on Bashir’s MSNBC program which airs daily . . . at 4 p.m. ET. These coincidences are just so amazing, eh?

And within minutes of the publication of this Think Progress article, the story was picked up by other liberals online:

If the latest news out of Kaufman County, Texas, is to be believed, this whole theory about “white supremacists” was entirely wrong — a complete waste of time, a misdirection from the actual culprit:

The day after the bodies of Kaufman County District Attorney Mike McLelland and his wife were found, an anonymous email went to county officials threatening another attack if the writer’s demands were not met.
Law enforcement authorities have since traced the threat to the personal computer of Eric Williams, a former justice of the peace who is now the prime suspect in the slayings. He is expected to be charged with capital murder as early as Tuesday, law enforcement authorities said Sunday.
Authorities on Saturday found numerous weapons inside a Seagoville storage unit linked to Williams as well as a car similar to the one seen leaving the McLellands’ neighborhood on the morning of the Easter weekend slayings.
“It’s a very good feeling when the pieces start to fall into place,” one law enforcement official said Sunday.

County Judge Bruce Wood said Sunday that McLelland repeatedly told him that McLelland believed Williams was behind Hasse’s slaying. The first time was in the emergency room in the hours after Hasse was shot down by a mysterious gunman dressed in black.
“He was distraught,” Wood said. “He very pointedly said to me, ‘I know who did this.’ I said, ‘Well, who, Mike?’ He said, ‘Well, Eric Williams.’”
McLelland, who worked for years as a diagnostic psychologist, described Williams as “a narcissistic psychopath” during that conversation and others. Wood said McLelland never elaborated on why he thought Williams was involved.
On March 27, Wood said he met with McLelland in the county judge’s office. “I said, ‘Are you still convinced that it’s Eric Williams?’” Wood recalled. “He said, ‘Absolutely.’”

Mike McLelland was shot dead four days later, which gave Mark Potok a chance to go on MSNBC, but I guarantee you that Martin Bashir and Chris Matthews won’t say another word about this crime now that we know the truth. Because they don’t give a damn about truth.

so why did the US Atty prosecuting 34 Aryan Bro. bail after the McClelland slayings? And why was the guy executed by LEO in Bowie Texas after the CO slayings?

DavidD

” ‘POTOK: “Well, like most of these race-based prison gangs, they are fundamentally a criminal enterprise. . . .” ‘ ”

The cynic in me says that it’s likely that the crimes of the white supremacist Aryan Brotherhood are dwarfed by those of black race-based prison gangs–but Potok and Matthews will never talk about that, will they?

JeffWeimer

About the first, perhaps he wasn’t privy to the McClelland’s information and all this media attention spooked him. As for the second, you’ll have to elaborate – who was “executed by LEO”?

The SPLC(Socialist, Progressive Libelous Community) is a Marxist group and should be declared a terrorist organization.

http://profiles.google.com/rob5136 Rob Crawford

Didya read the article?

http://www.facebook.com/we.palmer.31 We Palmer

Lets face it campers, the real meme behind the response to EVERY act of violence that occurs in this land is:this: WHITE GUYS WITH GUNS ARE THE REASON FOR VIOLENCE IN AMERICA.

Hence the public solution is: NO MORE WHITE GUYS, NO MORE GUNS … NO MORE VIOLENCE.

http://alanye.com/ Dai Alanye

Please be more specific in order to help us shoot holes in your ideas.

http://www.facebook.com/dusty.thompson.169 Dusty Thompson

These IDIOTS are America’s enemy not our friends…

http://boogieforward.us/ K-Bob

After Fort Hood, Fast and Furious, Benghazi and all the support for murdering babies born alive in botched abortions, clearly these “compassionate” leftists have proven once again that massacre is just another tool to use to grasp at power.

Like Jesse Jackson showing up days later wearing a phony shirt supposedly caked in Martin Luther King Jr’s blood, the real question ought to be: is there any blood Matthews won’t roll in for a chance to sell his vicious slander?

http://evilbloggerlady.blogspot.com/ Evi L. Bloggerlady

I totally agree. The operative word is “again.”

http://www.twitter.com/El_Skeptico Barracuda Bob

What’s the definition again?…Doing the same thing over and over again expecting different results?

Certainly not calling anyone crazy, but expecting any of the MSM outlets to change path and report truths is, insane.

They toss out what they perceive as truth as long as it fits their ideology and hope that it sticks. Unfortunately, it usually does and why it does is due to a simple fact. The viewers of networks like MSNBC have the intelligence quotient of gnats….stupid gnats at that. I’m assuming there is a population of smart gnats out there somewhere, but I can’t prove it as most gnats I come in contact with are smushed into an unrecognizable goo.

Please note, the usual suspects in the Boston Bombing are white supremacists, even after the first Saudi national is apprehended.

http://twitter.com/u1oo helix b.

Add Geraldo Rivera to the list of asshats who repeated this garbage on air. It was during his radio program last Tuesday.

http://twitter.com/ECHackett ChandlersGhost

This is kind of like a reverse Gosnell with the media.

nickshaw

Excellent work, Bob (and Smitty). Of course, the general public will never hear this back story of finger pointing by the liberal / progressives.
Like you say, Bashir and Tingles will never mention it again ( though it seems odd that they talked about it in the first place. PMSNBC doesn’t do stories about “local” crime, they said when asked about coverage of Kermit Gosnell) and the odious Potok will keep the file open under “right wing hate” at the SPLC.
The LSM, in general, and PMSNBC in particular, go out of their way to link the “right” to any sensational crime as long as the suspected perp is not black. Then it’s ignored (wouldn’t want to damage the narrative!)
Even today, with the Boston bombing, on CNN al Qaeda and right wing terrorist groups are practically linked as the perps!
It’s enough to drive a man to prove them right!
(you know I’m just kidding!!!)